Re: bin/39448: Bug in man.conf -> Manual page paths longer than 3 main subdirectories are ignored

["David H. Gutteridge" <gutteridge%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39448; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <gutteridge%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/39448: Bug in man.conf -> Manual page paths longer than 3
 main subdirectories are ignored
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:45:49 -0400

 I'm not able to reproduce this issue (granted it's been about 14 years,
 but I don't see anything significant that's changed in the code in this
 respect). For example, if I modify the default path in man.conf like so
 
 --- man.conf.orig
 +++ man.conf
 @@ -38,12 +38,13 @@
  # directory with all of the subdirectories listed for the keyword
 _subdir.
 =20
  # default
 -_default	/usr/{share,X11R7,pkg,local}/man/
 +_default	/usr/{share,X11R7,pkg,local/apache2}/man/
 
 and place a test man page in /usr/local/apache2/man/man1, it is found
 and displayed just fine. (My limiting of local/apache2 is deliberate.)
 
 There wasn't enough information provided in the report (no example
 man.conf entry) to determine anything further here. But I think
 whatever was going on, it isn't related to path lengths.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave